"Tamara is a UX architect and designer with a deep understanding of the Internet and a mastery of its visual language. Tamara and I worked closely on a months-long project for which she was the UX architect and I was the lead developer. Working with her was a pleasure. She took the time to understand our users' needs as well as the limitations of the system we were working with and the realities of the software development life cycle. In the final weeks of the project, she took up the mantle of the QA analyst and thoroughly documented every problem she found. She even filtered all the defects reported by end users, raising only the legitimate bugs to the development team. This was immensely helpful, and undoubtedly pushed the project over the finish line. Many UX architects blithely create a static, monolithic design that may address what a user needs but doesn't necessarily relate to the bigger picture of the system to which it belongs. Worse yet for developers, some UX architects wield their design as a sword, threatening to decapitate any change that comes their way. Not Tamara. She constantly triangulates her approach and strives to understand every force at play in the system. For Tamara, user experience is a conversation, not a lecture. She really wants her work to be accessible to her users and to her colleagues, while maintaining a clear focus and strong vision--a rarity in a world of obdurate UX architects and their joyless, worn-out designs. Any team would find Tamara's broad knowledge and helpful, friendly demeanor refreshing, and any business would benefit from her creativity, insight, and tenacity. I recommend Tamara without reservation."
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